White cross carried messages from family

By Jeff Freak
Updated April 21 2015 - 2:11pm, first published April 17 2015 - 11:00am
Great nephews of Sergeant Tom Mountain, Roy (left), of Westleigh in Sydney, and Jeff Freak, of Cleveland, tend the grave of their great "Uncle Tom" at the Beersheeba War Cemetery in southern Israel.
Great nephews of Sergeant Tom Mountain, Roy (left), of Westleigh in Sydney, and Jeff Freak, of Cleveland, tend the grave of their great "Uncle Tom" at the Beersheeba War Cemetery in southern Israel.

A simple small white cross provided by the Redlands RSL has found its way to the grave of an Australian soldier in a far flung corner of the world Beersheeba in southern Israel.